1. Life and living belong only to him who greets the morn

    amid wine and boon companions—

  2. with wine that seems to rival lightning

    in purity of hue and brilliance.

  3. The goblets seem empty of it,

    though it lies in one of them, brimming full.

  4. So limpid that the cup cannot be seen beside it, save

    after conjecture’s fancy gives way to direct sight.

  5. Delicious in taste and sweet in fragrance, it dispenses

    with freshly gathered apples and fragrant basil.

  6. True in spirit and life—for it has taken

    the place of souls within bodies.

  7. So drink it morning and evening—a roseate wine,

    its hue surpassing the roses on the cheeks of beauties.

Sol 5.6